The New Blueprint
for Climate Impact
Where climate intelligence meets capital conviction
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our generation.
- Accelerating and increasingly visible climate events are causing immediate, quantifiable damage to high-capex infrastructure, ecosystem services and human life.
- As an example, the atmosphere's moisture-holding capacity rises by roughly 7% for every 1°C of warming, which means heavier extreme rainfall, higher dew points and rising wet-bulb temperatures. This has a real economic challenge impacting design assumptions set for a different climate, labour productivity and asset integrity.
- Individual risks are identifiable and manageable. Compounding, interconnected risk is the greater threat and opportunity that requires an enterprise response.
- Insurance underwriters and lenders are pricing physical and transition climate vulnerabilities directly into capital allocation decisions. This is affecting the availability and cost of capital, and driving premiums, deductibles and coverage terms.
- Market capability will only sharpen. Public datasets already allow capital providers to compare vulnerabilities, exposures and performance across companies independently.
- In the absence of a global carbon price, markets are already pricing climate risk. The opportunity is to own your exposure and your resilience pathway. Otherwise the market will define both for you.
- Mandatory climate disclosure (IFRS S2) has arrived legally binds corporate boards to disclose quantified financial climate liabilities.
- Covered entities must move beyond narrative to quantified enterprise, operational and financial impact.
- Do not mistake this for a sustainability reporting exercise. The intent of IFRS S2 is to embed climate into core risk, financial and strategic decision-making. Treating it as a disclosure task understates both the effort required and the strategic opportunity at stake.
We determine the risk and build high-conviction business cases.
- We translate climate science for business. We identify risks and opportunities, determine financial damages and climate resilience, embedded in core business processes.
- We identify mitigation and adaptation options that reduce expected losses and strengthen financial, operational and asset resilience.
- We develop high-conviction business cases built to withstand internal capital, finance, insurer and lender scrutiny.
Advisory and technology designed to address your key questions.
Climate
Advisory
We provide advice to understand the options, the impact and the interventions to positively impact top and bottom lines
Climate
Technology
Our technology determines the climate issues that matter most and prepares outputs ready for business integration
Senior people, doing the work, supported by a global network.
Supporting clients across energy and industrials, financial, government and infrastructure sectors, we deliver climate projects designed to make a real world impact.
- Ex-Partner: EY (Middle East), Deloitte (Australia)
- +20 years experience in climate and sustainability
Yarn Climate Advisory LCC is led by Michael Wood, an entrepreneurial and commercially driven climate and sustainability leader with over 20 years of experience spanning energy, natural resources, finance and government sectors across the Asia-Pacific, MENA and global institutional markets. He was the founding partner and leader of EY's MENA Sustainability & Climate Consulting practice, and former Deloitte partner in Australia, specialising in decarbonisation, climate resilience, energy, circularity and sustainability transformation.
Driven by the conviction that climate and sustainability are direct levers of enterprise value and profitability, not compliance obligations. Sets strategic direction and stays the course through delivery, building the capabilities and the people needed to solve complex, real-world systems challenges for some of the world's most impactful organisations.
Sought as a strategic advisor and board-level voice on the intersection of climate risk, capital allocation and long-term enterprise resilience.
Platform & technology
- Data science and analytics
Technical experts
- Ex-Big 4 sustainability leadership
- IPCC contributors and technical reviewers
- Climate adaptation and nature specialists
Advisers
- Climate scientists
- Finance and transaction specialists
- Sector and industry advisers
Get in touch.
[email protected]- Phone
- +974 4452 8168
- Office
- Tornado Tower, West Bay, Doha, Qatar
- Registration
- Qatar Financial Centre, No. 5546
Let's build
a legacy to be proud of
Where climate intelligence meets capital conviction